Brian Jenney

ChatGPT, make me a mixtape cover. Busy as fuck. Hella text, most of it tiny. Crank the saturation till the flames look wet. Put a lion behind me for no fucking reason. Make the gold letters look like somebody chewed them.

“ArE deVEloPErS CooKED BrOoo?!?!” JFC. Stop asking. You’ve been asking for two years. If we’re cooked, we’re so well done that we’ve disintegrated.

Someone you know is copying and pasting code from a web chat. You're not as far behind as you think bub.

I'm trying to think of a time developers were NOT complaining about the job market... At what point does a "bad" market just become the "market"?

So you guys think normal people are really building personal software like that eh? I truly wonder whether X users have any friends or family sometimes 🙏

I've worked with 3 founders in the last 6 months who made some pretty damn good vibe coded apps. These 5 things would've saved them a lot of time and money

Worked with 3 founders this year to help save and/or ship their vibe coded apps. Way more fun than I imagined and the challenges have been interesting: - One was not using Git and instead allowing agents to write directly on the box - Another skipped using frameworks and had a MASSIVE html/css/js file that did in fact "work" - Agents that basically relied on regex to determine intent - No observability or tests in any of them What's worse is that there are shady contractors who take advantage of these people and charge outrageous prices to further slop-ify the codebases. I'll be writing a lot more about how founders can avoid these pitfalls going forward.

All my AI predictions were wrong... Vibe code clean up specialist is a real thing. I somehow became one. MCP is honestly really useful. I dismissed this way too early. Turns out you can 10x. I'm honestly close. Harness engineering is difficult and valuable. The models did get cheaper. Follow me for more failed predictions.

It took me way too long to understand GUI > TUI

I like writing for nerds but increasingly, I like writing for vibe coding founders. This year I've worked on 3 different vibe-coded apps and have been genuinely impressed with what I've seen. Most of them could've saved a lot of headache, pain and monies if they followed the instructions below... brianjenney.medium.com/the-v…

I'm going to teach a bunch of business owners how to build and deploy a website. I do NOT want them learning to code or accessing Git. What's the simplest platform to launch a site? To me, it's Vercel. Render is pretty simple too. Any normie-friendly platforms I should use instead?

I made fun of vibe-code-clean-up specialists and boy was I wrong. Af. The most challenging project I've worked on so far this year is a vibe-coded app that's been launched and has paying customers. 1. No history in git for a LOT of changes that just got written directly on a box 2. So many markdown files "explaining" how this works... that conflict with one another 3. No type-safety 🥲 4. YOLO migrations with no schema history or ability to easily rollback 5. Staging? What's that? 6. Tests? What are those? It's an amazing product and vibing out the the MVP was the correct choice. Now it's my mess to clean up. Overhelmed but excited.

AI skills companies are hiring for: RAG, agents, evals AI skills developers are learning: Claude, Codex, skills and harnesses TBH - both buckets of skills are valuable but there's a lot more leverage in the first one. If you have the skills in bucket #1 and live in SF - DM me. I may have a role for you.

I prefer the blue-haired liberal version of the tech community over the right-wing bootlicking phase we’re in now 🤷 Never fit into either honestly, but at least one FELT less evil.

Worried you’re losing your coding skills because of AI? Don’t. You probably weren’t very good to begin with anyways. ❤️ 🥰

Hiring in the SF Bay Area is hard af. I'm a software dev with access to FDE and AI engineer roles in the bay area. (also mobile/fullstack) (also Austin/NY) All I'm looking for is someone who: 1. Lives in area and can go to an office sometimes 2. Builds agents, knows RAG and has shipped 1 or both 3. Isn't weird... no disrespect yo 4. Knows how to code with and (importantly) WITHOUT AI 5. Likes a big fat bag Degrees and certs don't matter. DM me but please, understand I'm taken and my feet pics are more than you can afford.

It feels like Claude is approaching Github Actions levels of uptime.

On this season of LinkedIn Lunatics: AI bro replaces his entire dev team with AI. Discovers why engineering teams exist. Five-product indie hacker explains how software engineers are obsolete. Struggles to reach $1K MRR. Junior developer declares coding solved. Cannot find job. CEO of a company with one employee teaches you how to scale an organization. LinkedIn influencer who has never worked as a software developer explains exactly how to become a software developer. VC announces that SaaS is dead. Invests in SaaS company. Founder ships 47 AI features. Still looking for first customer. Will the AI slop continue? Will anyone actually make any money? Will a software engineer be hired? Find out this season on… LinkedIn Lunatics.

Nuanced opinions do not go viral. The person telling you, “Don’t look at the code. Trust the agent,” is correct. The person telling you, “Human review is still necessary. Verify every line of code,” is also correct. The person telling you AI has made them 10x faster is correct. The person telling you AI-generated code is creating a mountain of technical debt is also correct. These statements only sound contradictory because we keep pretending everyone is working in the same environment. We're not. Before you take blanket advice, or worse, parrot what influencers are saying online, consider looking at the context they’re working in.

Anyone still using Notion?